Police searching for leads; donations being accepted

12:02 AM,
Feb. 7, 2014

Quiver, a cat shot with an arrow, rests in a cage Thursday after undergoing surgery.

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A cat is lucky to be alive after it was impaled with an arrow earlier this week, and Washington City Animal Welfare investigators are asking the public for help to identify who may have shot the animal.

Kris Neal, owner of One More Chance (C.A.T.S.), said a volunteer located the feline, who was later named Quiver, on Wednesday morning. Quiver was one of several feral cats living near a park in Washington City.

"The cat had been missing for three or four days," Neal said. "Candace (Zook) called the Washington City Animal Control and called me to tell me she'd seen the cat. She got Quiver in a kennel, ...